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5. Canada in the Post War World Chapter 6
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10th Grade
09/03/2016

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igor gouzenko
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clerk who exposed a soviet spy ring operating in canada
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satellite states
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term given to countries controlled by the soviet union
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red menace
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term used by people who were afraid of communism
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brian mulroney
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canadian prime minister who brought in NAFTA
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NATO
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defense organization formed to prevent soviet expansion into western europe
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warsaw pact
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defense organization formed by the soviet union and her eastern european allies
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padlock law
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Quebec legislation that allowed police to shut down communist organizations
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lester pearson
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won the 1957 Nobel Peace prize
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suez crisis
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conflict in egypt over ownership of a canal
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cuban missle crisis
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nearly let to war between the United States and Soviet union in 1962
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NORAD
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air defense system between Canada and the United States
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avro arrow
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Canadian supersonic jet whose production was halted by the Diefenbaker government
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Bomarc missile
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NORAD weapons that created Controversy as they required nuclear warheads which many Canadians opposed
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Berlin wall
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barrier that became a symbol of the Cold war
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John F. Kennedy
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American president during the cuban missile crisis
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Nikita Krushchev
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Soviet leader who set missiles to Cuba
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SALT
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Soviet-American agreement to limit nuclear weapons
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet leader most responsible for ending the Cold war
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glastnost
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Soviet term meaning openness; led to freedom of speech
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perstoika
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Soviet word meaning reconstruction; let to more capitalist policies in the Soviet Union
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Somalia
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Country where Canadian peace keepers killed a teenage boy
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Rwanda
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close to a million people died here from a brutal civil war
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Romeo Dallaire
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Canadian general who led the UN peacekeepers in Rwanda
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Fidel Castro
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Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile crisis
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